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Dr. Bert Groenendaal – SIOEN Industries NV (Belgium)

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Founded in 1960; headquarters in Ardooie (BE)

3 divisions: Coating, Apparel and Chemicals

Ca. 4.500 employees; ca. 320 Mio EUR turnover

World market leader in coated textiles

European market leader in protective clothing

Activities:

Spinning and weaving of technical textiles

Coating via different technologies

Confectioning towards (semi)final products

SIOEN at a glance

“Protection through innovation”

Our products

Oil booms

Liners

Ropes Safety nets

Floatation suits

Covers

Our marine products

Our R&D programme focusses on the global needs for the next 5 - 20 years

and where technical textiles can contribute to these needs:

▫ Demographic evolution

▫ Safety

▫ Climate

▫ Energy

▫ Ecological awareness

Our R&D strategy

Outline

Why AT~SEA?

Project objectives, consortium, etc.

Results after 18 months

Outlook towards coming 18 months

Summary

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The need

Solve food/feed – energy nexus

More energy for strongly growing global population

Renewable and sustainable energy

Sustainable/biobased materials

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The European Parliament has backed proposals to limit the amount of food crops used to produce biofuel. MEPs say "first-generation" biofuels - from crops like corn - should not exceed 6% of fuel used in transport by 2020, amending the target from 10%. They want "advanced biofuels" - sourced from seaweed or certain types of waste to make up at least 2.5%. Biofuels have been seen as a way to cut fossil fuel use, but using food crops can displace food production. MEPs vote by 356 votes to 327 to support a legislative report by Corinne Lepage, a French liberal MEP, which puts a limit on the proportion of food-based biofuels that should make up the fuel mix.

BBC News Europe, Sept 11, 2013

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Marine science meets maritime industry – March 29, 2012

State of the art

Photo: Ifremer

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The concept

Development of substrates based on advanced textiles to facilitate open sea cultivation of aquatic biomass (seaweed), having a high-potential as a source for renewable energy, biofuels, food/feed, and biomaterials

Advanced textiles for open sea biomass cultivation (AT~SEA)

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The project targets the development of novel textile materials for 3 different elements of the aquatic biomass cultivation farms:

• Advanced textile substrates for seaweed cultivation

• Advanced textile based cables and connections for positioning and anchoring of the advanced textile substrate

• Advanced coated textiles for flexible and light-weight floatation tubes, as well as for storage and transportation tanks

Main project objectives

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Work program: FP7-NMP-2011-SME-5

FP7 project number : 280860

Duration: 36 months

Participants:

The team

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Preparation and incubation of macro algae

Preparation, confectioning and installation of advanced textiles

Seaweed cultivation& harvesting

Transport and storage of seaweed

Seaweed conversion

Mooring engineering

AT~SEA

HORTI, OCEAN,SAMS

BEXCO, MARINTEK

SIOEN, CTB, EURO,TECNORED, DEVAN

ECN, OCEAN,SAMS

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Results after 18 months

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Advanced textile substrates

Development of advanced textile substrates:

Materials/chemistries

Textile structure

Textile finishing/coating

Testing and evaluation:

Lab level

Tank level

At sea

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Advanced textile substrates

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Advanced textile substrates

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Advanced textile substrates

Ireland Norway Scotland

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1. Twine experiments at lab scale

2. Cultivation on 1 m2 substrates at sea

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Twine experiments

Objective: compare the adhesion and growth of gametofytes onto different types of twines (chemistry, textile structure, dtex, surface roughness, etc.)

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braided twisted

Sample Twine sample dtex Coverage role 1 Coverage role 2

T1 Chem 1 - twisted 1670 80 80

T2 Chem 1 - braided 1670 5 20

T3 Chem 1' - twisted 1100 20 25

T4 Chem 1' - braided 1100 5 5

T5 Chem 2 - twisted 1670 2 12

T6 Chem 2 - braided 1670 2 2

T7 Chem 3 - twisted 1330 50 85

T8 Chem 3 - braided 1330 8 65

T9 Reference chem 3' 26.000 70 85

T10 Chem 4 - twisted 470 20 20

T11 Chem 4 - braided 470 5 12

Twine experiments

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Chem A 370 50 10

Chem A' 12.000 50 50

Chem B 1000 30 50

Chem C 1180 1 2

Chem C' 1200 1 1

Chem D 3650 0 1

Reference 26.000 10 5

Chem E 8.000 1 1

Chem F 30.000 1 1

Chem C'' .. 30 25

Chem G 11.750 10 20

Chem A'' (braided) 8600 2 1

Twine experiments

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1. Twine experiments at lab scale

2. Cultivation on 1 m2 substrates at sea

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Objective: study the cultivation of seaweed (Saccharina) on 11 different types of 1 m2 textile substrates (Febr 2013 – May/June 2013)

1m2 substrates at sea

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1m2 substrates at sea

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Mooring studies

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Mooring studies

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Seaweed storage & transportation

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Outlook towards coming 18 months

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2013/2014 tests at sea: • Large set of 2 x 2 m2 textile substrates • Variation in chemistries and textile structures • Optimized seeding formulations and procedures • Deployment at sea (Norway, Scotland and Ireland) in October 2013

Outlook

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Project demonstrators • 2013/2014: 25 m2 • 2014/2015: 500 m2

5 x 5 m2 demonstrator to be deployed in Ireland in October 2013

Outlook

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Summary

The AT~SEA project studies the development of advanced textiles (cultivation substrates; mooring system; buoyancy + storage & transportation tanks)

Results after 18 month: o Tests in lab, in tanks and at sea reveal that there is a strong influence of

textile chemistry and textile structure on the adhesion and growth of seaweed

o Models and simulations resulted in detailed insight into the behavior of the cultivation substrates under various conditions at sea

o Successful seaweed growth on 1 x 1 m2 textile substrate at sea

The final project target is to successfully demonstrate a 500 m2 cultivation system in Ireland (2014/2015; i.e. deploy, seed, grow, harvest), thus showing the technical and economic feasibility of seaweed cultivation in Europe

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Final remark

Commercially successful cultivation of seaweed in Europe can only be established if we:

o Develop multiple markets (energy, food/feed, (bio)materials, etc.)

o Apply a multidisciplinary R&D approach

o Have good collaboration • Between industries, research institutes and universities

• Between (inter)national and regional seaweed related groups (Nordic Algae Network, Algal Bioenergy Special Interest Group, etc.)

• Between national and international project teams (ENALGAE, BIOMARA, etc.)

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Interested in testing the AT~SEA substrates?

The AT~SEA consortium is willing to supply its advanced textile substrates (under non-disclosure/non-analysis agreement) to groups that are interested to tests these substrates at their cultivation locations. Please contact Bert Groenendaal for more details.

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Bert Groenendaal AT~SEA project coordinator

SIOEN Industries NV

Fabriekstraat 23 8850 Ardooie (Belgium)

bert.groenendaal@sioen.be

Mobile: +32 476 98 43 79

More info …

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3rd Danish Algae Conference – Grenaa (DK) – October 9-10, 2013